Brick-and-mortar businesses describes businesses that use physical buildings and plants for operations related to the production of their goods and services. Often these businesses offer face-to-face customer service as well. Brick-and-mortar businesses are contrasted to businesses that rely on the use of the Internet in order to operate (e-commerce businesses). Neither is better than the other, but the types of businesses encounter different problems.

Problems that brick-and-mortar businesses encounter are foot traffic (the ratio of customer service employees to potential customers in the store at one time) and store front, or marketing. As the company relies primarily on its physical presence, they must ensure that their stores look appropriate and up-kept at all times to make a good impression on potential customers.

Today, most brick-and-mortar businesses have an online aspect of some variety in order to compete in the international market. As many people use the Internet, brick-and-mortar businesses often take advantage of this and advertise through the Internet, even if their products are only offered through physical stores. Examples of these types of businesses are Target and Walmart.

Select a company with a significant e-commerce strategy. (Alternatively, if you have entrepreneurial aspirations, use your own entrepreneurial business model as the context for analysis). This company could either be your own home work organization or it could be another organization of your choice or choose the entrepreneurial

Using public websites to do your research, the focus will be on marketing, sales, and customer service transactions with end-consumers (B2C).
1. Choose an industry of interest in which several companies have developed online e-business strategies with public B2C sites. This industry might include traditional companies operati

What are the pros and cons of the four options presented to the VP and Division Manager in the attached case study?
Include a recommendation for the one of the four options you feel would be the most appropriate solution.
If none of the four options is the appropriate solution, recommend a new option. In your response remem

Write an outline for starting an online business or initiating an e-commerce project (i.e., funding, writing
business plans).
I was this thinking on this paper outline more in the line of how to start an online or eMarket.

The question that was asked was: What are the major limitations on the growth of e-commerce? Which is potentially the toughest to overcome? Her, the student Carla's response or answer (post) to that question is below.
There are many benefits to the world of e-commerce where consumers and business owners are able to handle d

The question that was asked was: What are the major limitations on the growth of e-commerce? Which is potentially the toughest to overcome? Her, the student Stephanies response or answer (post) to that question is below.
While there are several advantages to using e-commerce, the largest set back would have to be cyber

1. What is e-commerce? How does it differ from e-business? Where does it intersect with e-business?
2. What are the eight key components of an effective business model?
3. What are some of the unique features of e-commerce technology?
4. What are three benefits of universal standards?
5. How are e-commerce technolog

This assignment is intended to explore the e-business models, strategies, and competition in a specific industry.
1. How do companies such as Expedia, Priceline, Google, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay make money online? (Discuss their business models)
2. How are some of the latest trends in the Internet and computing, such as social

1. Why might companies today develop Information Systsems (IS) operational plans that cover only one year?
2. Describe the key uses of Critical Path Method (CPM) and Gantt charts.
3. What is a virtual team, and why do IT managers need new approaches for managing such a team?
4. Why does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act impact the work

I am required to write a 4 page reaction essay on Alfred Sloan's My Life With General Motors from an operations management perspective. I have two good references already (see below). I would like to have a few more references that I can look up to learn more about the topics. I have attached information on the topics I am re

You plan to hold a weekly breakfast meeting with your team of strategic planners to practice assessing an industry. For the upcoming week's breakfast meeting, you told your team that they should be prepared to discuss the business environment or industry analysis of the home video rental industry.
- Identify the major players

Article "Real Choices for the Apple iPhone" from Marketing: Real People, Real Choices, Seventh Edition by Michael R. Solomon, Greg W. Marshall, and Elnora W. Stuart
1. What is the dilemma facing Apple?
2. What factors are important in understanding this decision?
3. What are the alternatives? Which do you recommend?
4. Wha

INTRO:
The internet has created new ways to do business for organizations with much less capital planning as opposed to the high capital needs of traditional brick and mortar organizations. Based on this, how should management and leadership be addressed for each type of business?
With this being said, I need help in resear

I just need a short paragraph to answer this question. Thank you.
Marketing is the same regardless of whether it is for a service/good or e-commerce/brick-and-mortar: it is about research to identify target markets in which you can brand a product and create a competitive advantage. Do you agree with this statement?

Perform an internal, competitive environmental scan for your organization.
Write a summary of no more than 1,400 words that does the following:
1. Identifies and analyzes the most important external environmental factor in the remote, industry, and external operating environments
2. Identifies and analyz

Create a new product or service for an existing organization. This product or service will be the basis for your marketing plan. (Existing organization is Amazon.com and new product or service is a brick and mortar store for Amazon).
Include:
- A SWOTT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends) analysis on

Can you help me find literature and prepare a research proposal on Wal-Mart's price perception marketing strategy and consumer behavior?
(1) Review of the Relevant Literature, Related Research and Literature Reviews. Provide a minimum of ten research studies that address the same topic chosen for the proposal:
a) What are th

I need some help getting started with a report that deals with the following case:
You are a middle manager of Hotels For All and have three assistants. This is solely a stick-and-brick company so far. Identify some of the key conditions or variables that will be necessary for the organizational formation of the new company t

I need assistance on how to complete this assignment:
Create a 15 - 20 slide presentation of your outline. Provide explanations of the outline in the speaker notes (500 - 1250 Words).
Develop a research proposal outline for the topic, "People who go to school online versus people who go to regular universities". Hypothesis

Question 1
As more retailers develop a web presence, they often move from a "brick-and-mortar" to a "click-and-mortar" business model where customers expect channel integration.
Can you identify any potential problems for these companies?
Can you identify any unique marketing opportunities that such a change would offer the

1. Using the following criteria, perform a STEEP analysis for Blockbuster to understand the general environment.
Socio-cultural
Target market: age range; income brackets; gender specific? cultural leanings? life-style and leisure patterns; changes in social trends; shopping trends
Technological
IT for business manageme

1. Do you think that the act of Amazon raises moral issues and why?
2. What kind of role do consumers play in this dilemma?
3. What can local retailers do in order to compete with Amazon's use of one-day promotion enabled by price-check applications?

1. Why are marketing channels and intermediaries necessary? With companies selling directly to customers over the internet in increasing numbers, is this always a good thing? Why do channel arrangements sometimes need to be modified over time?
2. Apple stores sell directly to customers, but you can also purchase Apple prod

1. What aspects of customer service have contributed to Amazon.com's success?
2. What are the differences in the purchasing experience between buying a book at Amazon.com and at a Barnes & Noble brick-and-mortar store?
3. What problems arose when Amazon.com expanded its offerings to products other than books?
These a

Monopoly Power
1. I remember in late March/early April of 2000 that Microsoft was involved in some form of an anti-trust suit that centered on some form of Monopolistic powers. Wal-Mart continues to expand worldwide not just with their traditional stores, but with their Sam's Club warehouse stores as well. McDonalds has con

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